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Osmos did not display any issues when installed via the Steam interface.

Game depends on Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable being installed
into the same bottle.

Game depends on OpenAL supports, which is currently unimplemented in COG-8.1.4 -

--> Follow Martin Zuther's tip&trick regarding solving the OpenAL issue

Note: If you have any issues with sound in CXG-9.0 use the same tip&trick

The installation procedure I used went like this;

1. Purchase the game via Steam using my system's default web-browser (firefox 3.5.x)

2. Install the Steam client via the cxinstallwizard builtin target (if not already installed)

3. Install Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Redistributable into the same bottle with cxinstallwizard builtin target

4. Start the Steam client, and download/install the Osmos software

5. Follow Martin Zuther's tip&trick and copy the dll files into the following path;

   ~/.cxgames/steam-osmos/drive_c/Program Files/Steam/steamapps/common/osmos

6. Launch the game

Gets a silver regardless of OpenAL work-around.

Cheers!

I've also changed my rating down to "silver". I had actually forgotten that "Osmos" doesn't run from the shelf but needs the OpenAL workaround... 😉

Hopefully we can do away with the OpenAL hack when COG-9.0 happens,
until then the work-around you found seems to do the job nicely.

...nice soundtrack btw... ;)

Cheers!